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“Community grandmothers” can help others with depression and anxiety

July 20, 2017 at 5:32 p.m.

Six months after the treatment ended, participants who received therapy from the "grandmothers" were one-third as likely as those who received standard care to have depressive symptoms. Their anxiety symptoms...

Book Review: “A Catalog of Birds” is a soaring new novel about love and loss

July 20, 2017 at 3:57 p.m.

A Catalog of Birds By Laura Harrington It's 1970 in Laura Harrington's brilliant new novel, "A Catalog of Birds," and Nell Flynn is about to graduate from high school. A...

The avocado has a sweet side, too — and it’s delicious

July 14, 2017 at 7:10 p.m.

The creamy texture of ripe avocados makes it a natural ingredient for rich desserts that are deceptively healthful, because, although there's up to 28 grams of fat in a medium-size...

Let’s not mince words: Lawrence Osborne’s “Beautiful Animals” is a great book

July 13, 2017 at 5:28 p.m.

The globe-trotter Lawrence Osborne is attuned to the often catastrophic clash of civilizations that a mobile world sets in train.

Three young people drawn together by World War II in “The Diplomat’s Daughter”

July 13, 2017 at 5:20 p.m.

By Carol Memmott, Special To The Washington Post

"To the New Owners: A Martha's Vineyard Memoir" by Madeleine Blais

Summering at Martha’s Vineyard with the Clintons and Katharine Graham

July 5, 2017 at 6:30 p.m.

"To the New Owners," Madeleine Blais' evocative memoir about her family's deep connection with Martha's Vineyard, was triggered by the 2014 sale of the beloved property that her in-laws bought...

With FX’s “Snowfall,” John Singleton returns to 1980s South Central LA

June 29, 2017 at 5:07 p.m.

The new FX series "Snowfall" opens on a neighborhood block in South Central Los Angeles in the summer of 1983. The afternoon sun shimmers through the palm trees. Sprinklers hiss...

Op-ed: Sessions isn’t making America safer. He might be making it more dangerous

June 28, 2017 at 6:11 p.m.

Op-ed: Jeff Sessions's mandatory minimum sentencing directive risks reigniting the "war on drugs" that has jeopardized the nation's criminal justice system.

Former acting AG Sally Yates: Sessions’ drug policy unjust, dangerous

June 27, 2017 at 10:55 a.m.

Former acting Attorney General Sally Yates says Sessions is out of touch with broad bipartisan consensus regarding the harm of mandatory minimum drug sentences.

A crime novel that captures the humanity of a dying town in rural America

June 22, 2017 at 7:21 p.m.

Wild Thyme is a township lost in rural northeastern Pennsylvania.

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